Run for your life! Noboru Iguchi's next film is an adaptation of a survival game novel Live (ライヴ, 2005) by Yusuke Yamada, who also wrote Real onigokko. World Premiere at Yubari in March, opens nationwide in May.
Empty website:
http://live-movie.jp/
Live (2014) (Noboru Iguchi)
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Re: Live (2014) (Noboru Iguchi)
And Yubari site:
http://yubarifanta.com/films/project/1223/?lang=en
Asami, Mitsuki Koga (Bushido Man) and Kokone Sasaki (Hello My Dolly Girlfriend) are in it also!
http://yubarifanta.com/films/project/1223/?lang=en
Asami, Mitsuki Koga (Bushido Man) and Kokone Sasaki (Hello My Dolly Girlfriend) are in it also!
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Re: Live (2014) (Noboru Iguchi)
ok, I saw the film at Yubari. It's basically a self-ironic take on a Yusuke Yamada novel, with a few dozen people forced to play a deadly running game. They need to find the clues on what to do and where to go next by reading the Yamada novel Live. If they fail, their kidnapped family members will be killed in live video stream.
Dark topic, but this being Iguchi, it doesn't take long before the competitors are ordered to run into women's locker room. Plenty of panty shots throughout the film. It turns semi-splatter when assassins (rollerblade girls in bikinis) are sent after the competitors. Unfortunately nearly all of it is lame CGI blood. Some deaths are nasty enough to have earned the film a R-15 rating (which is high by Japanese standards which allow plenty of bloodshed and decapitation with PG-12).
The main cast consists of instantly forgettable pretty youngsters (complete with dull drama) but the supporting runners feature more charismatic faces like Kanji Tsuda (really funny), Mitsuki Koga (no martial arts) and Asami (manic over-acting mode again).
The mystery storyline is ok, keeps the attention somewhat.
Dark topic, but this being Iguchi, it doesn't take long before the competitors are ordered to run into women's locker room. Plenty of panty shots throughout the film. It turns semi-splatter when assassins (rollerblade girls in bikinis) are sent after the competitors. Unfortunately nearly all of it is lame CGI blood. Some deaths are nasty enough to have earned the film a R-15 rating (which is high by Japanese standards which allow plenty of bloodshed and decapitation with PG-12).
The main cast consists of instantly forgettable pretty youngsters (complete with dull drama) but the supporting runners feature more charismatic faces like Kanji Tsuda (really funny), Mitsuki Koga (no martial arts) and Asami (manic over-acting mode again).
The mystery storyline is ok, keeps the attention somewhat.
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Re: Live (2014) (Noboru Iguchi)
While I'm not such a huge fan of Iguchi's films, I must say I'm a huge fan of Iguchi himself. I was chatting with him in the hotel corridor as we walked towards the screening room together, and he's like the nicest guy on the planet. He treats total strangers like his close friends. This is the second time I've met him and I'm always impressed by his kindness. A tremendously funny live performer as well.
From the left: a guy whose name I forgot, Takashi Nishina, Asami, Kanji Tsuda, Noboru Iguchi
From the left: a guy whose name I forgot, Takashi Nishina, Asami, Kanji Tsuda, Noboru Iguchi
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Re: Live (2014) (Noboru Iguchi)
The Japan Times review:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/201 ... 2UkDKIxiOk
I quite agree, except that the review doesn't mention nearly all of the blood is D-grade CGI.
I've been thinking recently, does everyone else just love CGI blood? I constantly see reviewers praising an action or splatter film, and then when I get to see the film it's full of awful CGI that no one mentioned about... :squigglemouth:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/201 ... 2UkDKIxiOk
I quite agree, except that the review doesn't mention nearly all of the blood is D-grade CGI.
I've been thinking recently, does everyone else just love CGI blood? I constantly see reviewers praising an action or splatter film, and then when I get to see the film it's full of awful CGI that no one mentioned about... :squigglemouth: